ARTSAKH’S RECOGNITION DOESN’T INVOLVE ‛SEPARATISM’, AS IT WAS NEVER PART OF A SOVEREIGN AZERBAIJAN!

STRAIGHT TALK FROM THE HOMELAND #1 Indigenous #Armenians will lose the ancient homeland of Artsakh to a corrupt genocidal dictatorial regime, unless they educate the world! It’s a very simple message. 1. A nation can only claim ‛territorial integrity’ if it is recognised as sovereign! 2. The self-declared Azerbaijan DR 1918-1920 wasn’t internationally recognised as de jure [legally] sovereign by the League of Nations or any state, not even by the Ottoman Empire (it was only accepted as a non-sovereign de facto delegate to the Paris Peace Conference). 3. The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) was a non-sovereign province of the USSR. 4. Artsakh (then named the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast) exercised its legal rights under A72 of the Soviet Constitution to separate provincially from the Azerbaijan SSR in 1988, leading to the Azeri authorities in Baku commencing pogroms to murder Armenians, and an invasion of the NKAO. 5. Before the fall of the USSR on 26 December